December 2010
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Free Jafar Panahi →
bryanschutmaat: This is sad. Film director Jafar Panahi has been “sentenced to six years in jail after an Iranian court found him guilty of ‘colluding in the gathering and making of propaganda against the regime.’ He was also forbidden from filmmaking for 20 years.” Apparently, this hideously immoral backwater that is Iran’s theocratic government believes it’s a good idea to hinder one of its...
Dec 23rd
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NYT: Iran Jails Jafar Panahi, the Internationally... →
Panahi, who had expressed support for Iran’s opposition green movement during post-election protests in 2009, has also been banned from making films, writing any kind of scripts, traveling abroad and talking to local and foreign media for 20 years. His conviction comes despite a high-profile campaign by fellow filmmakers inside Iran and abroad to win his release. In March, Abbas Kiarostami,...
Dec 21st
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 11th
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GUARDIAN BREAKING NEWS: SAKINEH ASHTIAN IS NOT... →
I am completely stunned.  According to Iranian TV, she had accompanied a team of TV production of the news channel to her house “to recount details of killing of her husband at the crime scene.”  Press TV said: “Contrary to a vast publicity campaign by Western media that confessed murderer Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been released, a team of broadcast production team with...
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 3rd
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Bloomberg: Iran Says Suspects With Ties to Foreign... →
“With the arrests of these people, we have found new clues to arrest other elements,” Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi was quoted as saying today on the website of state-run Press TV. He didn’t give details of the arrests, including the number of people in custody or their nationalities. The minister said the suspects cooperated with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Israel’s Mossad and...
Dec 2nd
Leaked cable reveals US-Israeli strategy for... →
According to published sources, both the United States and Israel have been active in attempts to spy on Iran’s nuclear program and destabilize its government since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and those efforts intensified as concern over Iran’s nuclear program mounted in late 2005. Seymour Hersh wrote for the New Yorker In April 2006 that the previous December, Mossad Director Dagan had told...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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